Angelina Réaux Sings Weill and His Contemporaries

Angelina Réaux has enjoyed an international career in opera, theatre, concert, and cabaret; was hand-picked by Leonard Bernstein to sing Mimi in his Grammy nominated La bohème; and performs Bernstein's works world-wide. She has appeared in opera, musicals, and straight plays; has premiered works by Bernstein, Tony Kushner, Ned Rorem, Ricky Ian Gordon, and Kurt Weill; and has performed with preeminent orchestras, conductors, and directors. She will be accompanied on piano by Bruce Stasyna, Conductor and Chorus Master at San Diego Opera.
This one-night-only event will be a very special performance. According to Réaux, "upon discovering my affinity for the music of Kurt Weill, I began to explore just why I felt so comfortable in his musical skin. in preparing for this concert, I dug deep into his love songs and those of many of his contemporaries. I discovered that each song that I chose had a sublime integration of music and text that resulted in a compelling story, whether in English, French, or German; whether about love lost, rediscovered, longed for, or amused. The way I've strung these jewels together will hopefully tell a bigger story, each song bleeding together to inform what has been sung before and after."
"Angelina Réaux brings a better voice to Weill than anyone has ever heard, and a degree of identification with the material no one has matched since Lotte Lenya herself." -The New York Times
This program is made possible by a generous gift from the Bartush Performing Arts Fund.